I hate to think how many decades ago it was, but back in the 80's, my dad kept his sail boat behind a house in Ft. Lauderdale. Back then, houses were being bought, torn down and new houses built on the lot. The new houses were much bigger than the houses that were bought. The tear down process started back in the 80's maybe late 70s I suppose. The original houses all had a certain look, most if not all, were single story while the new house were all two story and had a completely different look. The old houses looked better to me than the new McMansions being built to take up as much of the lot as possible.
Back around 1990ish, a home owner on a major east/west canal in Broward county decided to add on to his lot by moving the sea wall farther out into the canal and back filling. How the idiot thought he could get away with that change is beyond me. Kinda impossible to not notice that this one sea wall was not aligned with every other sea wall on the canal. I can't remember the guys fine but it was huge. Not only did he pay to expand his yard, he then had to pay a fine for the expansion, and then pay to move the sea wall back to where it was originally. That guy was a genius.
Later,
Dan